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JOSQUIN DES PREZ
Miserere mei Deus - Funeral Motets & Deplorations Cappella Amsterdam & Daniel Reuss [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 26/Oct/2018 ] 'To lament, to mourn, to memorialise: such was the new fashion at the very end of the fifteenth century', writes Alice Tacaille. 'The poet, in mourning the musician, attains an expressive intimacy . . . a eulogy of art that places the lamenting poet... |
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ARVO PART
Pärt: Kanon pokajanen Cappella Amsterdam, Daniel Reuss [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 24/Feb/2017 ] "In striving to get to the essence of the words, Pärt has created 'a precious island in the inner seclusion of our soul', and Cappella Amsterdam under Daniel Reuss more than do justice to Kanon Pokajanen's distilled purity and sublime beauty" Gramoph |
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FRANZ SCHUBERT
Warum ist das Licht gegeben dem Mühseligen? - Choral Works Cappella Amsterdam, Daniel Reuss [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 1/Nov/2014 ] The famous German Requiem must not be allowed to overshadow the wide variety of choral music Brahms wrote throughout his career. On this recording, Daniel Reuss and Cappella Amsterdam are our expert guides in a program that takes in sacred a cappella... |
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GYORGY LIGETI
Ligeti: Lux Aeterna Cappella Amsterdam, Suzanne van Els (viola) [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 17/Jun/2016 ] MARBECKS STAFF PICK: CD OF THE YEAR 2009 - "In this performance [of Lux aeterna] by the astoundingly good Capella Amsterdam it sounds more meditative and less apocalyptic than it did [in Kubrick's 2001], but no less haunting." Daily Telegraph |
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Carlos Mena
Paisajes Del Recuerdo [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 5/Mar/2007 ] |
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VICTORIA
Et Jesum: Motets for Solo Voice Carlos Mena (countertenor), Juan Carlos Rivera (lute, vihuela) [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 20/May/2010 ] "A fresh and surprising look at one of the Renaissance's most distinguished figures" Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine July 2004 |
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Carnet De Viaje Musica
Africa-America [ Harmonia Mundi / CD ] |
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ERNST KRENEK
Sechs Motetten nach Worten von Franz Kafka Caroline Stein (soprano) Philip Mayers (piano) / RIAS-Kammerchor / Hans-Christoph Rademann [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 1/Mar/2010 ] After a critically acclaimed first disc devoted to his Lamentations of Jeremiah RIAS Kammerchor now returns to one of its favourite composers. Krenek was born in Vienna as the son of a Czech soldier in the Austro-Hungarian army. He studied there and... |
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J. S. BACH
Bach: Leipzig - Christmas Cantatas Carolyn Sampson, Dorothee Blotzky-Mields, Ingeborg Danz, Mark Padmore Collegium Vocale Gent, Philippe Herreweghe [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - released 7/Dec/2018 ] The Christmas cantatas have the use of a church chorale as their conceptual starting point in common. And their intimate performing forces. With Bach's output they present a kind of meditation on the meaning of the feast of Christmas. |
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J.S. BACH
Cantatas Vol 2: Wir danken dir, Gott, wir danken dir BWV 29 & 6 others Carolyn Sampson (sop) Charles Brett (alto) Mark Padmore (ten) Peter Kooy (b) / La Chapelle Royale / Collegium Vocale Gent / Philippe Herreweghe (dir) [ Harmonia Mundi Herreweghe Bach Edition / 3 CD - released 1/Apr/2010 ] "The soloists are outstanding, with Carolyn Sampson and Mark Padmore in especially communicative form… Outstanding work; Herreweghe's occasional oratorios are beginning to achieve some kind of critical mass, a very fine series of Bach recordings... |
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PABLO NERUDA
The Poet Sings Cary Ratcliff / Shawn Kirchner / Donald Grantham / Craig Hella Johnson [ Harmonia Mundi USA / CD - released 11/Sep/2015 ] Craig Hella Johnson leads Conspirare in this vibrant tribute to revered Chilean poet and statesman Pablo Neruda (1904-1973), whose life-affirming poetry is the inspiration for these captivating choral settings by Donald Grantham, Shawn Kirchner and... |
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JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Piano Concerto No 1 / Haydn Variations Op 56a Cedric Tiberghien (piano) / BBC Symphony Orchestra, Jiri Belohlavek [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 9/Jun/2017 ] "This notoriously difficult yet majestic concerto is the perfect vehicle to show off the considerable talents of dazzling French pianist Cedric Tiberghien." Gramophone |
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MAURICE RAVEL / MODEST MUSSORGSKY
Ravel [Includes Piano Concertos & La Valse] Cédric Tiberghien (piano), Stéphane Degout (bartone) / Les Siècles, François-Xavier Roth [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD Box Set - released 14/Jun/2024 ] Les Siècles present two of their successful series of Ravel recordings on period instruments under François-Xavier Roth, with Cédric Tiberghien at the piano and baritone Stéphane Degout. |
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J.S. BACH
Bach: Partitas 2, 3 and 4 Cedric Tiberghien (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 21/Jul/2017 ] "His emotional involvement with the music is so high, it is a pleasure to recommend this disc." Nalen Anthoni The Gramophone |
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J. S. BACH / BERIO / BRITTEN / CARTER / C. P. E. BACH
Works for Oboe Solo Celine Moinet (oboe) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 1/Mar/2012 ] "It's an exhilarating performance - edgy, audacious, fired up with virtuosic bravado - and the multiphonics are breathtaking." (BBC) |
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DONIZETTI / GODARD / HONEGGER / IBERT / PASCULLI / WAGNER
Meditations: Oboe & Harp at the Opera Celine Moinet (oboe & english horn) & Sarah Christ (harp) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 15/Oct/2014 ] "[Moinet] has compiled her visiting card with considerable ingenuity and a minimum of barrel-scraping...[She] is flawless throughout: her sound is a delight, her techique impeccable and her stamina - especially in Pasculli - superhuman...Oboe, harp a |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Rondo Violoncello Cello-Ensemble, Peter Buck [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 21/Jul/2017 ] An ensemble of fifteen identical instruments, it could be done only with violoncellos: the combination of superb technical virtuosity, discipline and an acute sense of modulating sonorities results in a magnificent -and unprecedented- range of timbre |
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BYRD
Music for a Hidden Chapel: 2 masses (Missa in temporae paschali & Missa in assumptione) Chanticleer [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 13/Aug/2004 ] "Superbly true, ethereal performances" (The New York Times) |
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RAMEAU
Les Grands Motets La Chapelle Royale / Philippe Herreweghe [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 1/Aug/2001 ] Music from the age of Enlightenment |
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VIVALDI
Sonate a tre 'La Follia' / Sonate a due violini Veronique Mejean, Kathi Gohl & Jesper Christensen / Ensemble 415 / Chiara Banchini (conductor) [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 25/Mar/2008 ] Born in Lugano (Switzerland), Chiara Banchini is one of the most renowned "baroque" violinists on the international musical scene. |